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We introduce a variant of the R\'enyi entropy definition that aligns it with the well-known H\"older mean: in the new formulation, the r-th order R\'enyi Entropy is the logarithm of the inverse of the r-th order H\"older mean. This brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Francisco José Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

In this survey we review Hamilton's entropy and Perelman's entropy, and provide motivations for these concepts. Then we review recent results on the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, the Sobolev inequalities and kappa-noncollapsing estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-19 Rugang Ye

We study a class of ergodic quantum Markov semigroups on finite-dimensional unital $C^*$-algebras. These semigroups have a unique stationary state $\sigma$, and we are concerned with those that satisfy a quantum detailed balance condition…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Eric A. Carlen , Jan Maas

We investigate quantum R\'enyi entropic quantities, specifically those derived from 'sandwiched' divergence. This divergence is one of several proposed R\'enyi generalisations of the quantum relative entropy. We may define R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alexander McKinlay

Starting from the geometrical interpretation of the R\'enyi entropy, we introduce further extensive generalizations and study their properties. In particular, we found the probability distribution function obtained by the MaxEnt principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher

For certain families of finite quantum graphs, we study the question of how eigenfunctions are distributed over the graph. To characterize properties of the distribution, generalized entropies of the R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis types are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Alexey E. Rastegin

While most useful information theoretic inequalities can be deduced from the basic properties of entropy or mutual information, up to now Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI) is an exception: Existing information theoretic proofs of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Olivier Rioul

We study the geodesic convexity of various energy and entropy functionals restricted to (non-geodesically convex) submanifolds of Wasserstein spaces with their induced geometry. We prove a variety of convexity results by means of a simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Daniel Lacker

An information theoretic approach to bounds in superconformal field theories is proposed. It is proved that the supersymmetric R\'enyi entropy $\bar S_\alpha$ is a monotonically decreasing function of $\alpha$ and $(\alpha-1)\bar S_\alpha$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 Yang Zhou

Configurational entropy, or complexity, plays a critical role in characterizing disordered systems such as glasses, yet its measurement often requires significant computational resources. Recently, R\'enyi entropy, a one-parameter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-27 Nina Javerzat , Eric Bertin , Misaki Ozawa

In classical thermodynamics the entropy is an extensive quantity, i.e.\ the sum of the entropies of two subsystems in equilibrium with each other is equal to the entropy of the full system consisting of the two subsystems. The extensitivity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 H. Fichtner , K. Scherer , M. Lazar , H. J. Fahr , Z. Vörös

Minimization problems with respect to a one-parameter family of generalized relative entropies are studied. These relative entropies, which we term relative $\alpha$-entropies (denoted $\mathscr{I}_{\alpha}$), arise as redundancies under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 M. Ashok Kumar , Rajesh Sundaresan

We develop a geometric realization of a broad class of generalized black hole entropy functionals by establishing their direct correspondence with the Misner$-$Sharp quasilocal mass and the Wald Noether$-$charge entropy in scalar$-$tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Hussain Gohar

We introduce a notion of majorization flow, and demonstrate it to be a powerful tool for deriving simple and universal proofs of continuity bounds for entropic functions relevant in information theory. In particular, for the case of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Eric P. Hanson , Nilanjana Datta

We study the class of self-similar probability density functions with finite mean and variance which maximize R\'{e}nyi's entropy. The investigation is restricted in the Schwartz space $S(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and in the space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Agapitos N. Hatzinikitas

As was shown recently by the authors, the entropy power inequality can be reversed for independent summands with sufficiently concave densities, when the distributions of the summands are put in a special position. In this note it is proved…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Sergey G. Bobkov , Mokshay M. Madiman

An extension of the entropy power inequality to the form $N_r^\alpha(X+Y) \geq N_r^\alpha(X) + N_r^\alpha(Y)$ with arbitrary independent summands $X$ and $Y$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is obtained for the R\'enyi entropy and powers $\alpha \geq…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Sergey Bobkov , Arnaud Marsiglietti

This paper considers an entropy-power inequality (EPI) of Costa and presents a natural vector generalization with a real positive semidefinite matrix parameter. This new inequality is proved using a perturbation approach via a fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-18 Ruoheng Liu , Tie Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

A recurring obstacle in the study of Wasserstein gradient flow is the lack of convexity of the square Wasserstein metric. In this paper, we develop a class of transport metrics that have better convexity properties and use these metrics to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Katy Craig

We establish quantitative stability results for the entropy power inequality (EPI). Specifically, we show that if uniformly log-concave densities nearly saturate the EPI, then they must be close to Gaussian densities in the quadratic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Thomas A. Courtade , Max Fathi , Ashwin Pananjady